Senior Software Engineer (Java, Kafka)
Phaxis
Chicago, IL, United States
Full-time
Must Have Qualifications :
- 5+ years experience with Java, Kafka
- Based in Chicago
- Financial Services background
- This role supports and works collaboratively with business analysts, team leads and development team. A contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and Cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities;
collaborate with other developers, architects and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data-driven organization.
This Application Developer will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.
Responsibilities :
- Support the application development of big data application for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment
- Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation
- Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet : both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented
- Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements
- Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
Qualifications :
- Hands-on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API
- Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc
- Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Kafka
- Experience working with two or more of the following : Unix / Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms
- Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc
- Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google
- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph
- Experience following Git workflows
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI / CD pipeline etc
- Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics
Education and / or Experience :
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required
- MS in Computer Science is a plus
14 days ago